On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 12:19:11PM +0100, Achill Gilgenast via Devel wrote:

It's already defined by default in systemd: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v257.6/sysusers.d/basic.conf.in#L32

Adding it again here in libvirt-qemu.sysusers.conf causes the following warning by validating it with sd-sysuers:

/usr/lib/sysusers.d/libvirt-qemu.conf:1: Conflict with earlier configuration for group 'kvm' in /usr/lib/sysusers.d/basic.conf:32, ignoring line.

I don't know if the GID is important, but from simple grepping around it doesn't seem that way.

I'm changing this line to say: On Fedora/RHEL systemd is built with -Dkvm-gid=36 so there is no change in the allocated GID on these platforms. Other platforms have the same facility available to them if they wish to retain a fixed GID.

Signed-off-by: Achill Gilgenast <achill@achill.org> --- src/qemu/libvirt-qemu.sysusers.conf | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> and pushed. Apologies for the delay to this trivial patch

diff --git a/src/qemu/libvirt-qemu.sysusers.conf b/src/qemu/libvirt-qemu.sysusers.conf index 3189191e738a..05c35f94d814 100644 --- a/src/qemu/libvirt-qemu.sysusers.conf +++ b/src/qemu/libvirt-qemu.sysusers.conf @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ -g kvm 36 g qemu 107 u qemu 107:qemu "qemu user" - - m qemu kvm -- 2.51.2

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